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Mowry

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a variant of the Anglo-Norman French personal name Mory, a short form of Amaury (see Emery, Morey).
  • Roger Mowry (c. 1612–66) emigrated from England to MA before 1634, when he married Mary Johnson in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA.

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